El Pino

 tree, movie / film / TV location, historic landmark

El Pino (the Pine Tree) is a natural landmark located in East Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood, at the corner of Folsom & North Indiana Streets.

The tree, an Australian Bunya Pine, is on the former property of Mr. Okuno, a Japanese dentist and intern in a WWII detention camp that, after receiving the land as a gift from an Anglo lady his wife worked with, rebuilt his business and amassed a huge library and, after retiring, used to take long strolls around East Los Angeles, greeting everyone and amusing the children with storytelling.

Mr. Okono is listed in the California Who's Who.

The El Pino is extensively featured in the 1993 Taylor Hackford movie Blood In Blood Out (aka "Bound by Honor"). and people in the East Los Angeles consider the tree a living monument.